Pennie Brooks, LMHC

Pennie Brooks is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with over four decades of work in mental health. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and relationship problems. She also supports concerns tied to aging and geriatric issues and caregiver stress.

Brooks uses straightforward, practical methods to help clients manage daily struggles. She blends talking therapy with skills people can practice between sessions. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and on building tools to handle hard moments.

Her background includes work in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, hospice care, government programs for at-risk youth, group practices, and long-term private practice. That variety shaped an ability to respond to crises and to long-term challenges like chronic illness, brain and spinal cord injury, and bereavement.

She draws on a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs, including acceptance-based strategies and cognitive techniques. Therapy often focuses on resilience, managing symptoms, and making meaningful life changes.

Brooks brings personal experience with trauma, disability, chronic pain, and loss to her professional work. That perspective informs a collaborative style that aims to help people feel understood and capable of moving forward.

People who choose her work toward concrete goals, learn coping skills, and revisit progress over time as new challenges arise. She aims to help clients find more clarity, strength, and hope in day-to-day life.

How therapeutic approaches fit with online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and coping with chronic illness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to reduce symptoms like anxiety and anger. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps them find their own solutions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as issues change and new goals emerge.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, shorten travel time, and allow more flexible scheduling. It can also accommodate people managing health conditions or caregiver responsibilities who need convenient ways to check in. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT techniques well to remote formats, using guided exercises, worksheets, and conversational coaching to practice skills between meetings.